Adrian L Talamantes

Counsel

Adrian L. Talamantes is Counsel in the Global Transactions practice group of King & Spalding. His practice focuses on a wide variety of domestic and international business transactions, including project development and energy projects, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, with particular emphasis on matters relating to investments in Latin America. Adrian’s clients include domestic and international companies, project developers, and buyers and sellers of equity and assets, including producing and developing oil and gas properties, crude-oil and natural gas terminals and transportation systems, liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals, and power generation facilities. Adrian also assists clients manage their personal affairs in Mexico, including matters relating to real estate transactions. Adrian is fluent in English and Spanish and can review, analyze and draft complex documents in both languages.

Representative Experience

Project Development and Energy Projects

Representing Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía, S.A., a subsidiary of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production company in Colombia, in the development of a Phase One, 3.1 MM bbl crude oil storage and port facility

Represented Chevron Corp. in the structuring of its $1.24 billion investment in shale oil and gas resources located in the Vaca Muerta formation in Argentina

Represented a private equity firm in the early-stage development of ethanol projects in the Dominican Republic, Argentina and Ecuador

Represented an Ecuadorian project company in various matters relating to the development and operation of the only privately-held heavy crude-oil pipeline and marine terminal facilities in Ecuador, and in the related negotiations with Ecuadorian governmental authorities, including the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Petroecuador and the Dirección General de la Marina Mercante y del Litoral (DIGMER), resulting in the approval by the Government of Ecuador of the general terms and conditions (including lifting and crude-oil transfer procedures, quality bank and fuel allocation principles, and marine terminal regulations) governing the operation of such pipeline and marine facilities

Represented an Ecuadorian project company in the negotiation and execution, on an emergency basis, of a crude-oil transportation agreement with Petroecuador

Represented a leading international energy company in the proposed development of a 100MW co-generation facility in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico

Mergers and Acquisitions

Represented a leading energy company in the acquisition of producing and developing oil and gas properties in Colombia

Represented a consortium of Chinese national oil companies in the acquisition of producing and developing oil and gas properties in Ecuador, valued at $1.4 billion, including an interest in a heavy crude-oil transportation pipeline valued at $1 billion

Represented a United States leading natural gas transportation company in the acquisition of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and in the drafting and negotiation of related merger and joint venture agreements

Represented a Japanese energy company in the negotiation of a proposed farm-out of a service contract for the exploration and production of crude-oil in Ecuador

Represented a private equity firm in connection with the proposed acquisition of a brown-field, 199-MW power generating facility in Colombia

Represented a United States petrochemical company in the acquisition of the textile effects business of a leading biological and chemical group of companies dedicated to the production of specialty chemicals in the Americas, including business operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Brazil

Represented an investment banking and securities firm in the acquisition of operating and developing wind power generation projects in the United States and Costa Rica

Divestitures

Represented Beach Energy in the divestiture of oil and gas working interests in North Dakota

Represented Neste Oil in the divestiture of its investments in Mexico, including in the drafting and negotiating of settlement agreements

Represented a debtor-in-possession in the sale to a Chinese leading ship-building company of assets for the construction and completion of one floating, drilling, and crude-oil producing, storing and offloading vessel, as part of a plan of reorganization, including in the negotiation of assignment and settlement agreements with 21 vendors of equipment and other construction materials

Represented an international energy company in the divestiture of project companies holding rights to construct and operate a 130 km. natural gas pipeline in central Mexico

Represented a United States energy company in the divestiture of project companies holding rights to operate a 543-kilometer natural gas pipeline located in Argentina and Chile

Represented a United States energy company in the auction and divestiture of its power plant portfolio in Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic

Represented a global, full-service energy company in the divestiture of its gasoline station portfolio in the United States

Assisted in the divestiture of a Mexican natural gas pipeline in the El Bajio region

Assisted in the divestiture of oil and gas properties in Indonesia

Restructuring of Investments (Latin America)

Represented a Chinese global energy company in the restructuring of its crude-oil exploration and production interests and related investments in Ecuador as a result of government action and changes in law

Represented a Chinese energy company in the restructuring of its producing heavy crude-oil operations and investments in Venezuela as a result of government action and changes in law

Capital Markets

Represented a global real estate developer in a $160 million secured re-financing with a major U.S.-based life insurance company in two tranches, the proceeds of which refinanced a 2012 loan maturity

Represented a global real estate developer in a $177 million secured loan with two major U.S.-based life insurance companies, with the proceeds used to finance property acquisitions